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From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add kernel version deprecation notice
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:54:44 +0000
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On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 11:38 +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>=20
> On 02/14/2018 11:31 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 00:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 31/01/2018 16:27, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > > Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement.
> > > > Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version.
> > > >=20
> > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > +* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current
> > > > minimum
> > > > required
> > > > +=C2=A0=C2=A0version for the DPDK) will be end of life in May 2018.
> > > > Therefore
> > > > the planned
> > > > +=C2=A0=C2=A0minimum required kernel version for DPDK 18.5 will be =
next
> > > > oldest Long
> > > > +=C2=A0=C2=A0Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.10. The recommend=
ed
> > > > kernel
> > > > version is
> > > > +=C2=A0=C2=A0the latest LTS kernel which currently is 4.14.
> > >=20
> > > We could print a warning at EAL init if kernel version does not
> > > satisfy the
> > > minimal requirement.
> > >=20
> > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> >=20
> > Note that 3.10 is dead as well since last year (as I discovered
> > with
> > immense joy when I had to backport meltdown fixes...), the next LTS
> > in
> > 3.16 which will be maintained until 04/2020.
> >=20
>=20
> In this case we should differentiate upstream Kernel versions from
> downstream ones. For example, RHEL7/CentOS7 are based on v3.10 ans
> still
> maintained.

Ubuntu does 3.13 as well - I think the problem is that if we want to
support distro-specific LTS kernel versions, we need volunteers to do
the work for them :-)

--=20
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi